Sword God in a World of Magic

Alex walked towards the area where the giant octopus had landed.

He didn't want to miss out on any potential rewards the hedgehog had for him.

While Alex was walking to that place, he looked at his left arm.

His left arm was no longer frozen, and it actually felt a bit hot. Sadly, his left arm was still severely injured. The freezing of organic material completely destroyed its structure, severing veins, and many other things.

Alex's left arm hadn't been in pain while it had been frozen, but as soon as it had thawed, Alex felt searing pain coming from it.

Alex couldn't really move it much, but he could still experiment with it.

The ethereal spire had entered Alex's left arm, and it remained there. He had already accidentally shot some cold air out of his left arm earlier, and Alex wanted to know how that worked.

Alex was already familiar with how it felt to move Mana, and he willed for the cold Mana in his left arm to explode.

SSSHH!

A blast of cold air left Alex's left arm. Since his left arm was still limply hanging around, the cold hit part of Alex's left leg and the ground.

The ice below Alex's left arm grew by a bit, and the coat on Alex's left leg completely froze.

However, Alex was too busy with something else.

As soon as Alex had willed the Ice Mana to explode, his arm started to burn. Well, it wasn't burning literally, but it felt like it was burning.

Alex quickly ran to one of the spots with destroyed ice. The octopus had destroyed a huge part of the lake when it had surfaced.

SSSSSS!

Alex put his arm directly into the icy water and gritted his teeth. The sound of something hot touching cold water could be heard as soon as Alex's arm hit the water.

'Fuck! That's so hot!' Alex thought. 'Are you serious?! You have Mana, and you follow the Laws of Thermodynamics?! You want to make stuff cold, so you have to make other stuff hot?! Why can't you just do something magical?!'

After a while, Alex pulled his arm out and moved it through the air for a bit.

His arm had received several burns.

However, it was coated with a thin coating of ice now.

His arm definitely felt colder than before.

'My arm is colder than before. So, let's try again!'

SSSHH!

Another blast of cold air, and Alex immediately dipped his arm into the cold water again.

'It's not as hot as previously, but it still feels like I touched a hot plate or something,' Alex concluded.

After a while, Alex pulled his arm out again.

'I wonder, can I use less?'

the Mana but also

SSSH!

arm

Alex's

temperature that would make someone sweat

left Alex's left arm

he thought about everything he had witnessed. 'So, my arm heats up proportionally to how cold the air is. I'm not sure, but I

to

his left arm with his right arm and pointed it at

bit. Just a tiny, little

SSSSSHH!

the arm. However, since he had only used a little

some icicles had formed on Alex's

rubbed the icicles off his face and looked

my arm probably only heated up by a single degree. Yet, the

temperature as a reference when cooling

if it were -40°C right now, and if my arm were 20°C hot, and if I unleashed a blast equaling 20°C, the blast of air would be -60°C, and

his chin as a complicated expression

this ability relies heavily on my environment. After all, if I were in some desert that's 50°C and I did the same thing, my arm would reach 40°C, and my opponent would get a comfortable

be different,' Alex thought as he looked around. 'Sure, the creatures living

30°C hot air. However, a beast living in a -40°C cold tundra would have

5°C cold arm without issues. It would simply feel very dull, numbs, and awkward. However, I could unleash a blast of 35°C.

can even blast them with like 60°C or something. Sure, my arm would get severe burns and would become useless until I healed it, but

Alex scratched his chin.

are some uses for this ability in a fight. My sword is one-handed anyway,

all this time, and he finally came

passed a tree and saw an area of absolute

trees were all destroyed, and many gigantic needles poked

hedgehog was calmly munching on the octopus, seemingly without

of the tentacles and saw how it

was one of the thicker tentacles of the octopus, and just its width

before the

was probably fifty meters long, which simply

onto the tentacle

walked over to the spot where the hedgehog was currently munching

continued eating, but after some seconds, it

head to

became a bit

spire in his body? After all, it was currently munching on the creator and actual owner of the ethereal

similar to the

He hoped not!

of sniffing, the hedgehog pulled

looked at

at

walked to the tentacle where

CRUNCH! CRUNCH! CRUNCH!

biting, the hedgehog had severed the tentacle from

BANG!

the tentacle a couple of meters into the distance with a